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Guy on the scaffolding last Tuesday showed me a trick with his bevel gauge I still use
He was fitting a tight seam on a boiler shell and just eyeballed the angle with his gauge flipped backwards instead of marking it out. Has anyone else picked up a weird habit from an older hand like that?
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king.aaron27d ago
Had a buddy who worked in a shipyard for a few years before the dry dock shut down. He picked up this trick from an old pipefitter where you use a crescent wrench as a makeshift scribe by holding it upside down. Worked great until he tried it on a live steam line and the wrench heated up fast. He dropped it, burned his glove, and the whole crew called him "Hot Hands" for six months. Hollyl45 is probably right though, Tuesday scaffolding guy might be a ghost for all we know. That wrenches off the mark and you are looking for a new job.
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hollyl4527d ago
Guy on the scaffolding last Tuesday showed me a trick" - sounds like the start of a horror movie where everyone ignores the creepy old timer and ends up with a crooked boiler. I'd probably try that flipped gauge move and end up with a seam that looks like a staircase. At least if it goes wrong you can blame it on "Tuesday scaffolding guy" instead of your own bad measuring.
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